Shiraz Barbers and Rugs

This is without a doubt the single worst barber I have ever gotten my hair cut in.
I’ve hovered around various places locally, generally getting average but not great cuts from barbers. I’d been growing my hair out quite a bit. Hadn’t gotten a haircut in over 2 months and even that one was just a bit of of a tidy up to even it out. I paid 30 for that in a hairdressers in town and decided it wasn’t necessary to pay that kind of cash again for a quick routine cut so I stopped in here on the way home from work. I told the barber up front that I was letting it grow, I just wanted him to tidy up around the back. Tried to show a picture of what I was eventually hoping for but I don’t think he even looked at it.
I’ve twice gotten my head shaved for Shave or Dye but outside of those occasions, I have never had so much hair taken off my head as I did here, including times when I wanted it. I came in with reasonably long hair that I had been growing out and left with less than I had for at least six months. I feel like the kid from Boyhood or Natalie Portman in V for Vandetta. I can’t believe how much has been taken away. I don’t like interrupting people cutting my hair because I assume that they know what they’re doing even if it’s not immediately obvious to me. Like it might look bad when it’s still wet but will end up looking just right once a bit of gel is put in. I didn’t really get a grasp of just how much had been lost until I left and ran my hands through. It’s not even a good kind of short hair. About a year ago I wore my hair short and I would never in a million years ask for the kind of cut I eventually got. It’s awful. On the way home and even now, I’m considering just shaving it all off and starting from scratch.
I was literally speechless and could think of nothing to say, not that the barber who served me even asked whether I was happy with it. That’s another big problem I had. The barber was one dour guy. The patron ahead of me was trying to strike up a conversation about Iran (where the barber was from) and he was getting nowhere with it so I didn’t bother trying to talk too much, but honestly that’s not a problem to me because I’m happy to just sit quietly for the cut. What I didn’t like was that there was basically no explanation of what he was doing or clarification of what I wanted the entire time that I was losing most of my hair. Any time I’ve gotten a big change of hairstyle at a place before (which I was not supposed to be getting here), I’ve had the person cutting check with me that what they were about to do was okay. Nothing here.
I’m very, very unhappy with what I got in this place and the € 13 I paid for it wasn’t exactly cheap either by the standards of barbers in Dublin. I can usually shrug off a so-​so haircut in the knowledge that I can get another one in a few weeks but it’s going to take me MONTHS to just get back to where I was yesterday.

Great barbers, friendly service and reasonable prices. What more could you want — oh they sell woven rugs too!

This is tooooo good, I’ve been running this around my head for the last two hours trying to work out which of the myriad of jokes to go with here and quite frankly I’m stumped. So, I’ll just give you the facts and leave he first bit to you.
May I present Shiraz, the only Barbers I have ever come across that also sells RUGS!!! Now once I stopped giggling and went in it turned out that A. The barbers had opened its doors to the public not 6hours before for the very first time (this day 15thSept 2009) and B the rugs mentioned were not the envisioned wigs but actual put them on the floor or on the wall (if you are of that type) rugs — and jolly nice ones too.
Totally worth going just so you can tell the story at parties.